BPL Anime Club (for Grown-ups): Steamboy

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Are you a fan of anime?  Then join our monthly meeting of the BPL Anime Club (for Grown-Ups)!

The BPL Anime Club will meet on the first Thursday of every month at 5:30 p.m. in the J. Henry Kegley Meeting Room.  We’ll watch anime movies and television series on our Big Screen.  We’ll also discuss anime and related manga and munch on Japanese snacks.  It’s a free, walk-in event.  No registration is necessary.

For our meeting on November 2, we’re showing Steamboy (2004).  Starring Anna Paquin, Patrick Stewart, and Alfred Molina, Steamboy is a fascinating, steampunk adventure of epic proportions.

Rei (Paquin) is a young inventor living in Manchester.  The son and grandson of inventors, Rei has a very big legacy behind him; not to mention, he’s just come into possession of his grandfather’s (Stewart) invention:  the “Steam Ball.”  Seemingly filled with limitless power, the Steam Ball is an incredible invention in the right hands—and a dangerous weapon in the wrong ones.

Rated PG-13.  103 minutes.